Asklemmy

Lemmy.world: because it was the top result on Google and I neither knew about the other servers nor remembered my experiences with Mastodon.

Probably going to stay here anyway.

Mostly out of laziness

I initially made an account here because it looked cool. But I didn't know that kbin was part of the Federation so I also made an account on the newly created lemmy.world instance just to bounce between kbin and lemmy. But once federation was enabled here I subscribed to all the communities I had subscribed on lemmy world. Still bounce between the two buuuuut spending most of my time here. Love you guys!

I created my own instance so that I know it will not just "go away".

Edit: I have a feeling that a lot of instances, besides the big ones, will vanish after the newness wears off.

I'm on Beehaw because there are no downvote button

I'm on lemmy.ca because I'm Canadian.

I joined lemmy.fmhy.ml because it allowed NSFW without being focused on it and I prefer the more open approach.

I'm very happy with my choice

I made an account at kbin.social and just went with it. It's all gonna be federated anyway (unless it gets defederated) and each day actually feels like it's improving.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com

infosec.pub because their communities were interesting.

I chose kbin, loved the integration with mastodon

This was linked on some post about alternatives to that other site I want to stop using. And honestly I'm quite confused on the "it doesn't matter/it does matter" so I'm just rolling with it and not trying to worry about it.

I ended up with kbin.social since I liked the interface, liked the roadmap and existing integration with Mastodon, and because that instance was the one everyone was suggesting for KBin at the time. I'll most likely spin up my own instance for myself and maybe a small group of others to join.

Joined sh.itjust.works since it's located in North America, has open registration, and the admin sounds like he knows what he's doing running a server. I've stayed 'cause it's been stable and I like the admin's vibe. It and lemmy.world seem to have become the main large "general purpose" instances since they both have open registration.

I also have an account on kbin that I'm not using much at the moment. I think that site has lots of future potential, though.

Kbin just because I love the interface and I love the idea of having both articles and microblogs!

I bounced back and forth between several lemmy instances and kbin.social. I feel like I gave them all a fair shot. I ended up sticking with kbin because I like the interface better, and it integrates with the fediverse better (microblog/mastodon integration). It is younger though, so it still has some more growing pains to go through, but the developer is very active, so I'm confident it'll get there. Ultimately, it will have a much more robust feature set than lemmy, and I still won't miss out on anything posted in a lemmy instance.

Lemmy.world initially cause I didn't like the overbearing moderation and locked communities of beehaw.org and the developers of lemmy.ml. Kbin seems to be great and I prefer its timeline / sorting, I just wish it was a bit more polished with magazine syncing and certain UI features, but that should come with time.

I chose kbin.social because of the alleged tankie issues at Lemmy. I didn't know enough about the fediverse to realise though that only a handful of Lemmy instances were included in the "warning" I'd heard about, so I looked to kbin instead.

Based on what I've seen from the admin here, though, I'm confident I'm in the right instance. He seems like an honest, stand-up dude who genuinely believes in all the best things the fediverse seems to be capable of

I've been using Kbin and Lemmy so far and I like both, but Kbin seems much more stable right now. I like kbin interface a bit more and the ranking algo seems to work better (there an issue on lemmy with hot and posts being added that should not be there). Kbin also let's me sort by 3hr/6hr/12hr in addition to normal sorting options.

lemmy.ml was broken and lemmy.world was the first one I saw besides that one. that's about it

edit: did a bit of scrolling, sounds like kbin might be a better fit, what do y'all feel is better?

Randomly came across mine. Was gunna join a larger instance just for testing, but it was right as the big Reddit rush was happening and my signups kept failing.

So I went with this one.

I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

I switched off lemmy.ml for two reasons:

• I didn't want to be on the "main" instance, kinda defeats the point of federation.
• While they were testing UI 0.17 on the instance it totally broke the site for me on both my phone and PC, I couldn't click anything for nearly a week.

So I settled on lemm.ee as it was a general purpose instance that wasn't too big, and the admin is committed to staying around. And of course I was actually able to click on things. It's nice here!

It really doesn't matter too much. You can search for communities across the fediverse anyway.

I'm still getting used to the concept of federation so... I created my initial account on beehaw because I liked it's ethos about being a safe and welcoming space. Then they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, which produced a lot of content i was going to be missing out on, so i created an alt on lemmy.world. I then realized this meant I'd have to swap back and forth between accounts to see both instances activity, so i moved to reddthat which is a nice little australian community, and this allows me to participate in beehaw posts, as well as lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works without switching accounts

I joined sh.itjust.works because my application at lemmy.one was taking a while and I mean, who doesn't want to be a sh.it.head 🙃